Resumen de Treaty changes for the better protection of EU values in the Member States

Petra Bárd, Dimitry Kochenov, Laurent Pech, Jan Wouters

• Safeguarding the rule of law, human rights and democratic legitimacy should indeed be non-negotiable. This being said, the entire discussion over the core Europe and a wider circle of MemberStates would be redundant if there existed a shared respect for the rule of law and other valuesdelineated in Article 2 TEU. Consequently, we place an emphasis on the need to prioritise rule oflaw enforcement over a multi-speed Europe. We view the proposals we present from the EU'sstandpoint as instruments of robust rule of law enforcement and entrenchment, or tools of militantrule of law designed to safeguard the current functioning and long-term existence of the Europeanproject – notwithstanding the fact that the procedures and legal principles we advocate for can alsofunction as an external check on national governments, thus contributing to the reinforcement ofvalues at both levels of governance.